Pieces of April Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Peter Hedges
Genres: Comedy Drama
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Novelist and screenwriter Peter_Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April. Family outcast April Burns (Katie_Holmes) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby (Derek_Luke). In order to spend some time with her dying mother, Joy (Patricia_Clarkson), April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. She discovers that her oven is broken the morning of the big day, so she goes around her tenement building trying to find a sympathetic neighbor with a working oven. Though she doesn't know them, neighbors Eugene (Isiah_Whitlock) and Evette (Lillias_White) offer the use of their oven, but only for an hour. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Dad Jim (Oliver_Platt) tries to think positively, while daughter Beth (Alison_Pill) flaunts her good-girl status and son Timmy (John_Gallagher_Jr.) captures it all on film. Shot with digital video, Pieces of April is a project of the Independent Film Channel's InDigEnt production company. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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